Aerial view of a Thai Nguyen tea growing area and the village below
TRAVINA is proud

CLEAN TEA FROM THE HEART
FOR A HAPPIER LIFE

SOCIAL IMPACT
The cooperative exists so that the people who grow the tea keep the value of it. Member households are paid for leaf picked to the 6 Không rules, the factory gives work through the season, and the buyer gets tea that can be traced back to the block it came from.
Fresh tea leaf spread on the withering line in the TRAVINA workshop, with the pan firing drums of the fixation area behind
The cooperative exists so that the people who grow the tea keep the value of it. Member households are paid for leaf picked to the 6 Không rules, the factory gives work through the season, and the buyer gets tea that can be traced back to the block it came from.
Members of Tam Tra Viet Cooperative hand picking tea in Thai Nguyen
Working towards the sustainable development of the TEA PLANT
for people, for society, for the environment

At TRAVINA we pursue sustainable development goals and apply a circular agriculture model across our growing areas. In this way we hope to build a business that both creates profit and creates a positive impact on the community and on society.

01Ending hunger, reducing poverty
02A life of plenty for farming families
03Better health through clean tea
04Gender equality in the cooperative
05Higher, steadier incomes
06Responsible production and consumption
07Protecting soil, water and forest
08Partnership with growers and buyers
CREATING SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS FOR TEA-GROWING HOUSEHOLDS

At TRAVINA we pursue sustainable development goals and apply a circular agriculture model across our growing areas. In this way we hope to build a business that both creates profit and creates a positive impact on the community and on society.

RAISING FARMERS KNOWLEDGE AND GROWING TECHNIQUES

To build growing areas that follow 6 Không practices, TRAVINA regularly runs technical training courses before and during each crop and monitors the fields so farmers get support in time. After the training, farmers gradually move from chemical fertiliser and pesticide to composted manure and biological pest control.

PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVING THE TEA PLANT
Farming to our 6 Không commitment helps protect the soil, the water and the air. Growing and keeping native tea varieties also helps preserve biodiversity.
Village houses set among the tea hills of Dai Tu, Thai Nguyen, below a peak covered in cloud
Panorama of the TRAVINA tea hills on a harvest morning, with pickers under sun umbrellas and the mountains of Dai Tu behind
PROTECTING THE HEALTH OF GROWERS, PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS

Farming to the 6 Không commitment helps protect the health of the growers and of the community around them.

OUR TEA IS MADE FROM RAW MATERIAL THAT MEETS OUR STANDARDS AND GOES THROUGH A STRICTLY CONTROLLED PROCESSING PROCESS, SO IT PROTECTS THE HEALTH OF THE CONSUMER.

Our tea is made from 6 Không raw material and processed on a modern, closed production line, so it protects the health of the consumer.

Members of Tam Tra Viet Cooperative picking fresh tea by hand along the terraced rows at Dai Tu, Thai Nguyen, seen from above
Fresh tea shoots on the bush at Dai Tu, showing the one bud and two leaves picking standard used by TRAVINA
CREATING JOBS FOR RURAL WOMEN.

Besides creating livelihoods and a stable income for the ethnic minority tea-growing households in our growing areas, TRAVINA also employs women from those same areas who lost their work to urbanisation. Many of TRAVINA workers are women with a stable income of 6-8 million VND a month.

1. Creating Sustainable Livelihoods For Ethnic Minority Households

TRAVINA develops its growing areas in Dai Tu and La Bang, where many ethnic minority households live, and signs purchase contracts with them so their income stays stable. We support families in moving to higher-value, 6 Không cultivation, which we buy at a better price than conventional tea and which raises their income.

2. Raising Farmers Knowledge And Growing Techniques

To build growing areas that follow 6 Không practices, TRAVINA regularly runs technical training courses before and during each crop and monitors the fields so farmers get support in time. After the training, farmers gradually move to organic fertiliser, biological pest control and properly composted manure.

3. Creating Jobs For Rural Women

Besides creating livelihoods and a stable income for ethnic minority women in our growing areas, TRAVINA also employs rural women who lost their work to urbanisation. Most of TRAVINA workers are women with a stable income of 6-8 million VND a month.

3. Creating Jobs For Rural Women

Besides creating livelihoods and a stable income for ethnic minority women in our growing areas, TRAVINA also employs rural women who lost their work to urbanisation. Most of TRAVINA workers are women with a stable income of 6-8 million VND a month.

Members of Tam Tra Viet Cooperative picking fresh tea by hand along the terraced rows at Dai Tu, Thai Nguyen, seen from above
Village houses set among the tea hills of Dai Tu, Thai Nguyen, below a peak covered in cloud
TRAVINA tea hills in La Bang commune, Thai Nguyen
4. Protecting The Environment And Conserving
Biodiversity

Farming to our 6 Không commitment helps protect the soil, the water and the air. Crop rotation and the use of native varieties also help preserve biodiversity.

5. Protecting The Health Of Growers, Producers And Consumers

Farming to our 6 Không commitment helps protect the health of the growers and of the community around them.

6. Making tea with no chemical residue and no preservative helps protect the health of the people who produce it.

Our tea is made from 6 Không raw material and processed to a strictly controlled standard, so it protects the health of the consumer.

We are proud to work at TRAVINA – Tam Tra Viet Cooperative, a producer of clean Thai Nguyen tea. At TRAVINA we do not only make high quality clean tea, we also bring real value to the community.

What “6 Không” means

6 Không is the growing and processing standard the cooperative sets for its own gardens at La Bang and Dai Tu, Thai Nguyen. Six things we do not use:

  • No herbicide
  • No chemical pesticide
  • No chemical fertiliser
  • No growth stimulant
  • No added flavouring
  • No preservative

A plot only counts as 6 Không after six years farmed this way. Until it reaches that mark we do not put the 6 Không name on tea from it, even when the leaf is good. That is why some of our teas carry the name and some do not.

Farming this way yields less and costs more. What it buys is tea we are willing to serve you standing in the garden it came from.

6 Không is our own standard. It is not the same as certified organic and TRAVINA does not claim that it is. What the cooperative does hold is VietGAP (DVCL-VG-TT-24-19-68), ISO 22000:2018 for the La Bang facility (GOODVN91025.FSMS), the district food safety licence 14/2025/UBND-NNMT-TNg, and a registered planting-area code.